USA's DOJ is recommending possible break up of Google

[Hosting Fred]

Whoever is number one is going to be accused of being a monopoly whether true or not, that is how life is.

Being top dog gets you a lot of attention and also scrutiny.

[snooper]

I do not give a rats ass half my sales are from google results.

[tacnet]

Whoever is number one is going to be accused of being a monopoly whether true or not, that is how life is.

Being top dog gets you a lot of attention and also scrutiny.

True. But being top dog is one thing and then there is having over 90% market share. Their nearest competitor isn't even in double figures and that makes Google pretty much the definition of a monopoly

Im not sure how they could break it up either ?? They might be able to separate Android, Chrome and Play into individual companies but that still leaves a MASSIVE search engine business that far outweighs any of its competition

[cimage]

Nothing has happened so far so who knows what they will do.All I care is my traffic stays the same.

[fappmaster]

Okay cut the crap who will win from this move

[snooper]

Okay cut the crap who will win from this move

Bing

[tacnet]

I guess the real question will be does the US government want to break up one of its biggest and most successful companies ???

By rights, it should do as google is the very definition of a monopoly for those of you old enough to remember, this exact same thing happened to Microsoft back in the late 90s/early 2000s. In that case, Microsoft had no choice but to invest heavily in their main competitor (Apple) in order to increase Apple's market share and avoid Microsoft being broken up. I can see this case going the same way. Maybe Google will invest in Bing or some other search engine to spread the market share . Im sure they would much rather do that than see their company being broken up

Just my opinion

[CanadianChick]

I guess the real question will be does the US government want to break up one of its biggest and most successful companies ???

By rights, it should do as google is the very definition of a monopoly for those of you old enough to remember, this exact same thing happened to Microsoft back in the late 90s/early 2000s. In that case, Microsoft had no choice but to invest heavily in their main competitor (Apple) in order to increase Apple's market share and avoid Microsoft being broken up. I can see this case going the same way. Maybe Google will invest in Bing or some other search engine to spread the market share . Im sure they would much rather do that than see their company being broken up

Just my opinion

Sure I am all for competition but why break up successful companies, that is another question, you know one company will always rise to the top of it's field.

[tacnet]

I guess the real question will be does the US government want to break up one of its biggest and most successful companies ???

By rights, it should do as google is the very definition of a monopoly for those of you old enough to remember, this exact same thing happened to Microsoft back in the late 90s/early 2000s. In that case, Microsoft had no choice but to invest heavily in their main competitor (Apple) in order to increase Apple's market share and avoid Microsoft being broken up. I can see this case going the same way. Maybe Google will invest in Bing or some other search engine to spread the market share . Im sure they would much rather do that than see their company being broken up

Just my opinion

Sure I am all for competition but why break up successful companies, that is another question, you know one company will always rise to the top of it's field.

Yep I would agree with you but the flip side of that argument is a monopoly is NOT good for consumers. Competition brings prices down and leads to innovation. A monopoly means that one company can do whatever they like, charge whatever they like and people have to pay it. Hence why we have a Monopolies and Mergers Commission

[gspotman]

Take out one top guy another will replace him or her

[born2bewild]

Microsoft must be happy

[Matty2]

I smell a settlement some huge fines be paid and business as usual

[viking]

I smell a settlement some huge fines be paid and business as usual

Best outcome for Google

[TheButcher]

How many of you remember Excite, Alta Vista and Lycos, they were the "Google" of their time in the early 1990's.

[Leatherman]

How many of you remember Excite, Alta Vista and Lycos, they were the "Google" of their time in the early 1990's.

Before my time